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Today’s Music: Slim Harpo – I’m A King Bee
Days Til Spring: SIX!!!And if you can, please help out Merbear.===========================>>>

Welcome to the last Foolishness before Spring begins. And what a week it was – the warm! The cold! The office shennanigans! How can one survive such madness? Why, by taking refuge in the ‘sphere, of course. Here’s some of what I saw…Sharp Little Pencil wrote out her Mainfesto (in poetry form, of course). Anja wrote a great freeverse about Ego, and John Phillips put this winter in Perspective

Seriously, if I didn’t get to read them and all the rest of you, I’d have probably run for the hills after this week, so thanks!Last week I asked for a different form of perspective – yours, on how you prepare for bikini season. And while none of you have body issues, that isn’t to say you are issue free. Here’s what you said. (As always, my comments are sun-kissed in italics.)

doing yoga and praying – Curvyroads(I’m praying I don’t have to yoga.)Drinking, smoking and thinking impure thoughts. (Mollytopia)(So…nothing special then…)applying for my bikini hunting license. – calahan(Remember, it’s “catch and release”. Not “release the clasp”.)covering up. No one wants to see a monster truck tire on thunder struts. JakLumen(You should model that in the Deep South…)Ignoring the bikini mandate and eating lots of pasta. –PLS(Bowtie pasta is known for its classic hourglass shape.)Studying for the “Official Inspector” certification exam. BT(It’s the hands-on inspections that get you in trouble.)making a Rainbow Loom swimsuit ~whatimeant2say(Not Fruit of the Loom?)drinking ALL the beers! (Words & Other Things)(Too late! *gulp*)Dreaming of winter! (Stacy)(Nightmare.)Going on a liquid-only diet. Beer me! – Erin E.(Blogger, me!)hot wax, sunscreen and gin, not necessarily in that order.The Sailor’s Woman(Wait – you don’t drink them all at once???)Not eating carbs. (hypothetically)(There are some fine vegetable liquors. (perhaps…)Installing a few wicked Apps, I just hope I won’t be late… Andro(Smartphones can kill?!?)Slapping a few choice asses, bend over girls… Andro(Pretty sure they’ll slap back. Hard. Perhaps with shovels.)Removing as many as I can, when it happens… Andro(I’m guessing that’s one before the cops show up…)A million burpees! Amy(I draw the line at seven hundred fifty thousand and eight.)completely ignoring it! – Benzeknees(Ask not for who the bikini bares. It bares for me, not thee.)wiki searching “bikini.” thematticuskingdom(Hey, if you have to ask…)guzzling beer so I’m too drunk to go to the beach. thematticuskingdom(The Hawaiian Tropic girls will be so disappointed!)nothing. I live in CA – it’s always bikini season. thematticuskingdom(I don’t think it counts as a season if it’s all the time…)buying protective eyewear. (MizYank)(A sleep mask might be the only way to avoid the horror!)Bikini? ja,ja,ja! My skirted suit might see the daylight… someday.brickhousechick(A long swimsuit! Leaving even MORE to the imagination!)Um, it’s called a Burkini. Maggie(WE HAVE A WINNER!!!)finishing this tub of ice cream – Twindaddy(I don’t think that kind of oil protects from sunburn…)digging a very deep hole. Elyse 54.5(Much like me, in these comments.)Moving to the Arctic for the season.~~Addie(There are those who say that will be the warmest habitable continent soon…)Getting ready?!? This body was born ready for the bikini season –Marie Nicole 😉(They make bikini onesies?)Consuming prunes and imported Mexican tap water to get to my birth weight(And it will go through you as fast as baby food did back then!)shaving my back…sooo hard to reach..(SnB)(Maybe your barber will give a volume discount?)collecting yellow polka dots. sandylikeabeach(Can you fit more than six on that teeny thing?)There’s a bikini season?! That must be the one warm day we have. Kayjai(I thought I saw Rob Ford in one the other day.)shaving my eyebrows off (Rutabaga) (I’ll just be trimming my ear hair.)

Congratulations to Maggie for her modesty! And from the offered choices, the most popular, by a wide margin, was Lobbying to bring back the swimsuits of the 30s. The long ones. So congrats to all of you you too. Unless your modesty precludes you from accepting?This week is Winter’s last one on the calendar til the bottom of the year. So, lets send it off in style, feeling good about itself. Offer as many well wishes for Winter as you like, but offer them by 2359 EDT, Tuesday 18 March, because that’s when this one closes.Try and keep yourself to three Other answers if you do write-ins, and if you do leave an Other, add a way to recognize you at the end, and I’ll link back to you next week.

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This one always makes me laugh, so I thought I’d use it again
Have a great week, y’all!

Man, this is a funny group of people… but the one thing I know is that I love/hate Matticus. Grrrr…. always bikini season… chugging beer… I’m going to write him a message he can see from California… in the snow… the pure white pristine snow…

So this week, my company merged with an Australian firm. That boat/front fell off video made the rounds like hotfire as a result, funniest thing ever… it’s not in the environment anymore… sheesh.

Thanks for the photo and the Rob Ford mention… I needed some good nightmares.

Ah yes, the yellow font with the thick lines… You hear that, Matticus?

I hope it is too. We just tripled in total revenue because of this, pure share swap deal (little or no cash). You might laugh (I think maybe you’re in financial sector, so used to really big numbers) but we’re now 1.5 billion/year. And I get access to global markets and the like. It seems like the right thing to do, but the devil’s in the details and how well the integration is handled and conflict of interest situations (we used to compete against each other) are resolved. Fun times indeed. Yesterday someone handed me a partial differential equation to describe how the revenue situation will affect the share price going ahead, and asked me to rationalize it… I seriously hate math, and think I need a new job. Anyway, no biggee, it’s just work.

I asked the Queen about house swapping and she was game until she found out exactly how cold you get up there… then she decided perhaps our non-winter wasn’t too bad after all.
I still think it sucks.
We had one “winter” week this year… One. The rest of the time it’s been in the 70’s and 80’s (f). Gross. I didn’t even get to visit the snow as often as I normally would.
Happily awaiting your snow scrawled message. I bet it’s going to say, “Come on up for a visit.”

On my blog. Have you ever even been to my blog, Zoe? Admittedly, it kinda sucks, but today you get to be graced by my dulcet tones… actually, it’s kind of hideous. I should have prepped. Or drank some scotch before I went in.

Loved the video. Hilarious! 😀 In your Polldaddy vote, you missed out “Being made fun of by Florida.” I was looking online to find out what that strange white swim costume is called, but all I could find was an ad which said, “Find the best selection of men’s swimwear at DICK’S Sporting Goods.” 😳

OMG – that’s the second time in a week I heard the phrase “banana hammock.” Mollytopia tweeted that it was the number one search term for her blog.
I thought it was a pervy ride at a sex club. Then Arden told me it was a Speedo. And now Art has confirmed it. But it’s kind of a disturbing visual.

Drat! I keep forgetting to submit answers to the poll! I need to set an alarm on my phone or something…

That photo is frightening, Guapo. I’m not sure I can get past it. Oh, our winter, as you know, was too warm. Sorry…spring is on its way. What will you do on the first day of spring? Are you planning to go canoeing? Surfing? Hope it’s something fun. Enjoy!

If you do manage to forget the picture, I have a pic of a very hairy gentleman is assless chaps, if you like. 😀
I’ll be at work the first day of Spring, but I’ll take a few minutes to just go outside and (hopefully) enjoy it.

Great answers to last week’s poll. Still grinning. Speaking of unusual facial expressions, and who isn’t, I’d never seen that video clip. Holy Scheiße, that was too funny. It made my front fall off.
No wait. It was going bra-less that did that.
Stupid gravity.
Great piece to begin the weekend my friend. Gracias!

“Burkini” was brilliant! I’ve enjoyed the foolishness ever since I started following you, but I especially loved it this winter. We needed it! Oh, and thanks for “The front fell off,” which was new to me. Hilarious!

That bikini makes last night’s episode of “Walking Dead” look like a Jimmy Fallon skit. Yikes! As for our Canadian neighbors, I’m not ready to forgive them just yet. They tried stealing bacon from us!
PS- That video is priceless.

Missed the poll this week! My bad! I’m really struggling with Kelvin home all the time – I don’t get enough alone time for reading. After almost a week of warm temps we got fresh snow & cooler temps today – it’ll probably be gone by the end of the weekend. Loved the clip about the front of the boat falling off – sounds like our politicians here. Our premier resigned last night.